Hieronymus David Gaubius
Hieronymus David Gaubius (24 February 1705 – 29 November 1780) was a German physician and chemist.
Life
He was a native of
Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738) and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770). He earned his degree at Leiden in 1725 with a thesis on psychosomatic medicine called Dissertatio, qua idea generalis solidarum humani corporis partiur exhibitur. After graduation he continued his training in Paris, and then practiced medicine in Amsterdam and Deventer
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In 1731 Gaubius was invited to Leiden by Boerhaave as a lecturer in chemistry, and in 1734 he became a full professor of medicine and chemistry. Gaubius isolated menthol in 1771.[1]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1764.[2]
Works
One of his best known works was Institutiones Pathologiae medicinalis, a 1758 textbook on systematic pathology that remained popular for many years.
References
- Wiep van Bunge et al. (editors), The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003), Thoemmes Press (two volumes), article Gaubius, Hieronymus David, p. 320.
- "This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the Dutch Wikipedia".
- ^ Google Books Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association
- ^ "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
External links
- Works by Hieronymus David Gaubius at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Hieronymus David Gaubius at Internet Archive
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